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UNITED STATES PATENT y EErcE.

cHAnpEs E. KLINE-AND WILLIAM n. wooDAnn, or CLEVELAND, onto.

VAPO R-STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 252,476, dated January 17, 1882,

Application lcd October 29, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, CHARLES F. KLiNE and WILLIAM H. VVOODARD,`ot Uleveland, in

the county of Cuyahoga and vState of'Ohio, have invented acertain new and Improved Safety Attachment for Vapor-Stoves; and we do hereby declare the following to be a t'ull, clear, and complete. description thereof'.

This invention relates to a safety attache meut i'or gasoline-stoves, the nature of which consists in connecting with the drip cups or their Vequivalents a certain arrangement of pipes for conveying off from the burner all excess of oil which may have escaped through the needle-valve. The said pipes are in connection with a receiver, into which the oil passes from the pipes.

That others may more fully understand the extent of this improvement, reference will be had. to the following specification, and to the annexed drawings, making part ot' the same, i-n which a` full and complete description ot' the said invention is set forth. It is not required that the vapor-stove should be especially -constructed and arranged for this purpose, as the improvement may be applied to any ordinary stove of this class provided with the usual ap= pendages, as will be shown on reference to thel drawings, which are designed to show the manner of applying the said improvements.

In the drawings Figure 1 purports to represent a side view of an ordinary vapor-stove,"

will be made.

Directly under each burner is a drip-cup, E,

In igniting the burner it is the practice to allow the oil to flow out from the needle-valve at J, Fig. 2, into the cup E, and then tire it to start the burner. rIhis practice is dangerous, and without care or due caution serions results follow, from the fact that the cup is liable to be overowed and rundown over the pipes or burners and onto the drip-pan G; and on iguiting the oil in the cup the flame spreads, involving all parts of the stove4 reached by the oil. The oil being of an inflammable and ex= plosive nature, the result is (too often) personal uj ury and destruction ofproperty. These consequences follow sometimes in a neglect to close the needle-valve of the burner and the valve of the. reservoir when the stove is not lighted, and in the attempt to light it an explosion follows.

The object of the said improvement is to remove these dangers as far as possible in arresting the overiiow ofthe cups by conducting ofi the surplus ils through the safety-pipes F F' to the receiver H. As the oil is received into the oil or drip cup it rises up to the li'ne c, Fig. 2. As soon as it reaches that point it vent the cups from overflowing, leaving sufl.

cient oil in the cup below the line a for the purpose ot' igniting the burner.

The openings into the pipes from the cups are covered with tine wire-gauze or finely-perforated sheet metal, and also the openinginto the receiver H, leading from the pipe F', to prevent explosion Ior burning of oil or vapor in the pipes or receiver.

Instead of connectiu g the pipes directly with the drip-cups, they may -he'attached to secondary oil-cups placed on the burner-tubes belowv the cups E, in which ease the overow from the cupswouldl run into thesecondary ones, from which it could be conveyed off to a receiver in the saine way as from the cups E.

In place ot' having one reservoir for all the burners there may be one for each burner sepal Voir, whereby the oil in the cup is prevented rately. from overowing when ignited for use, sub- The capacity of the receiver should be in stantially :is and for the purpose described. `proportion tothe number and size 0f the burn- In testimony whereof we affix our signntuzes x5 5 er, to receive all the overowing or waste oil. in presence ot' two Witnesses.

Vhat We claim as our invention7 and desire CHARLES F I,

, d stLINE. to secure by Letters Patent, 1s WILLIAM H' WOODARD.

1n vapor-stoves,ti1e combination of the supply-pipe, thedripeups beneath the burners, and Witnesses:

'n to the overow-pipes attached to the drip-cups J. H. BURRIDGE,

near the top edge and leading to a lowerreser- \V. H. BURRIDGE. 

